Thread: Changes to SA speeding fines and Demerit scales.

The South Australian Police Minister Jennifer Rankine, has today announced changes to fine and points schedules. Lower speed fines but higher demerits for SA - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) This means that as little as two speeding fines in three years could see you walking or catching the bus (if there was actually public transport in Australia). While I applaud the drive towards road safety, the aggressive stance is not backed up by statistics.

Only last night the president of the Council of Motoring Clubs NSW recited a number of statistics presented by NSW RMS/TAC, IIRC apparently current vehicle numbers on the roads have risen to over 16 times what it was at the end of WWII, last year serious pedestrian injuries were the lowest since records were collected in 1907, fatal crashes lowest since the 1940s and serious injuries the lowest in 30 years or something along those lines. (The dates and statistics may not correlate, but the statistics indicated the best year on record for many decades, inspite of more vehicles and more people on and around our roads.)

Is SA coming up for an election?

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

The South Australian Police Minister Jennifer Rankine, has today announced changes to fine and points schedules. Lower speed fines but higher demerits for SA - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) This means that as little as two speeding fines in three years could see you walking or catching the bus (if there was actually public transport in Australia). While I applaud the drive towards road safety, the aggressive stance is not backed up by statistics.

Only last night the president of the Council of Motoring Clubs NSW recited a number of statistics presented by NSW RMS/TAC, IIRC apparently current vehicle numbers on the roads have risen to over 16 times what it was at the end of WWII, last year serious pedestrian injuries were the lowest since records were collected in 1907, fatal crashes lowest since the 1940s and serious injuries the lowest in 30 years or something along those lines. (The dates and statistics may not correlate, but the statistics indicated the best year on record for many decades, inspite of more vehicles and more people on and around our roads.)

Is SA coming up for an election?

I can't comment on the changes ... due to employment etc!

But
Is SA coming up for an election?

Not until 2014

and in the meantime they are cutting hospital beds back, cutting the police budget, cutting schools budget

BUT still going ahead with unneeded footbridges over the torrens, changing the Adelaide oval from a beautiful venue to the Adelaide Stadium (dont get me started on this big waste of money where they are changing judgements to save money and not have to comply with heritage conditions etc) and funding artsy crap...

The Govt here would be all declared bankrupt and should be charged with trading whilst insolvent... If they were a private business theyd have to shut down...

2 more years, surely only 2 more years..